How many of you would go into a store and steal a cd?

And how many of you people felt the same way about the dvds,games and cds you bought before filesharing was around. Because nothing could have stopped you from stealing them before.

think about it

First I would like to thank Ernersto for his interview. He is I think the only journalist close enough to all bittorrent webmasters to write always interesting articles.

Then, I have read carefully all your comments and you are right. We need to improve the quality of the torrents on the site (though we are already using PirateBay fake list and other solutions to detect the fake torrents), that is why we are looking for a team of moderator.

We will also improve the lisibility of the site, we have some issues with torrents with very long names.

We have also several ads. Probably too much according to some of you. We try our best every month to negotiate with our ads partners feature less intrusive ads. We will remove some of them as soon as we have enough to support the growth of the site and have enough servers.

Finally, even though some of you do not like the site, we are really proud of where we have gone in 6 months, and offering one of the largest tracker (which has a 100% uptime) is a great achievement.

SUMOTracker is now hosting 200 000 torrents, almost 1/5th of all alive torrents! We want to continue providing the service.

Thank you all for your suggestions, and let us know if you want to help us and become moderator at SUMO!

SUMO
http://www.sumotorrent.com/quote

Since demonoid is down i decided to try out sumotorrent. I have seen their tracker in several torrents gotten off mininova.
I must say that sumotorrent is the most crappy site i’ve ever seen. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF SUMOCREW!
Jeez, could you possibly make the site ANYMORE annoying in terms of ads and SHIT?

I hope you crash and burn. You do not deserve any attention at all, sites like yours will be the downfall of bittorrent. Please kill -9 [pid of apache]

as admitted above, they take advertizing revenue in the 10’s of thousands of dollars a week. yet they cannot spend a dime on protecting their users

sumo are royally taking the piss

i am not alone and a growing number of trackers are implementing ipfiltering to block anti-p2p peers from joining the swarms. ironically, it is the big boyz who are ignoring this technology

where is the fukin leadership in filesharing? it is from the grassroot trackers who dispise the monolithic oldschool trackers for being so fukin niave and money centric

filesharing has always been about freedom of information and exchange of data. filesharing was hijacked by the Americans who sought to build their business models on the copyright content from the labor of others. THAT is what got filesharing a bad name

now PISSboy turns up and does it all wrong again, reinforcing the arguments against filesharing, making it more difficult for the genuine proponents of freedom of data

enough people know the guy to give him away to the French authorities. weed the weak from our ranks

it is a well funded project build

they could have taken 5% of their resources and committed them to making a safe place to share

if i was the “”AA i would fund a tracker like denis.stalker to support my tracking peer operations. sumo is no different, it does the same, it provides the **AA with a free platform to nail filesharers

we expect more from new trackers. stop being so fukin naive or damn greedy. give filesharers a safe place to share

i agree, private sites are the worse security risk because of their tracking ways

ipfiltering in the kernel is the safe way to go. every tracker should filter out the evil ip’s logging downloader activity in the swarms. if the downloader then uses SafePeer or PG and disables the evil DHT there is no way the swarm activity can be logged by evil ip’s

it is a 15 minute task to install ipfiltering on a tracker using iptables and a BlueTack blocklist. every tracker should do it and put an end to the logging of swarms

I’m not accusing you of anything, Ernesto, but at some point every owner of a popular site will have to make a choice of running a nice site with integrity (and maybe slowly make SOME money of), or sell out for fast and easy cash.

Perfect example: The Stile Project. It used to be funny and entertaining, but greed made Stile say “fuck you” to all his regular readers.

sumotorrent, ensuring 200,000 torrents, almost 1/5th of all alive torrents, are unsafe and tracked by anti-p2p groups

sumotorrent, designed and built to rape the filesharing scene of advertising revenue without a single regard to the safety of filesharers[/quote]

And what’s safer? Private sites? Sorry, no, never have been, doubtfully ever will.

Also, all you people commenting about adverts, and going on about adblock, sounds like you’re using FireFox (I’m very sorry for you). I do Think it’s ironic that you are using the one plugin which actually hinders the development of the program it runs on. (If you didn’t know, FireFox is ad-supported)

Can anyone else show them some love?

After reading this thread it seems as though the amount of pop-ups and advertisements a site has is the factor most people have been using to determine a site’s credibility.

Long live P2P!